Hidden inside defaults sit defaults and sulfated, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 281 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defaults and sulfated tie for the highest Scrabble score from defaults at 12 points. The top 10 of 281 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in defaults: one comes from rearranging its letters, and defaults itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defaults and sulfated, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defaults produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faulted. For points, the strongest plays are default and faulted — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defaults turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adults, faults, flutes, and lasted. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including defats, delfts and fasted.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defaults. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adult, dates and deals. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including defat, delfs and delft.
Rearranging the letters in defaults produces 100 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deaf and deal. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including deaf, fled and daft.
Unscrambling defaults turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ate and due. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, fed, and fud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defaults. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in defaults plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defaults and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
defaults is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for defaults. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
defaults is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defaults unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are defaults and sulfated, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from defaults earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in defaults produce 281 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 100 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.